John Henry Powell Schneider
John Henry Powell Schneider (c. 1768 – 1861) was a merchant in London of Swiss origins.
Beaver Hall The Seat of John Locke Esq. Southgate Middlesex. John Hassell, London, 1804.[1]
Early life and family
John Schneider was born around 1768. His family moved to England from Switzerland in the eighteenth century. He was resident at Beaver Hall, near Southgate, London, where his son Henry Schneider, industrialist and politician, was born in 1817 to him and his second wife, Elizabeth Moule.[2]
Career
His firm of John Scheider & Co. was involved with the scandal over Mexican debt.[3]
References
- Beaver Hall, Southgate. published 1 Jun 1804. Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- Schneider, Henry William (1817–1887), industrialist and politician. Oxford Index. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- Costeloe, M.P. (2003). Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888. Praeger. ISBN 9780275979393. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review. 190. Bradbury, Evans. 1851. p. 556. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- Walford, E. (1871). The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland : Containing a Brief Notice of the Descent, Birth, Marriage, Education, and Appointments of Each Person, His Heir Apparent Or Presumptive, as Also a Record of the Offices which He Has Hitherto Held, Together with His Town Address and Country Residence. Robert Hardwicke. p. 865. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- "Will of John Henry Powell Schneider of New Broad Street Mews , City of London". The National Archives. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
Further reading
- Banks, Arthur Geoffrey. (1984) H.W. Schneider of Barrow and Bowness. Titus Wilson.
External links
- Gigante, D. (2011). The Keats Brothers: the life of John and George. Harvard University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780674062726. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, ... E. B. Ince. 1846. p. 435. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- Shute, J. (2011). Henry Ayers: The Man Who Became a Rock. I. B. Tauris. p. 266. ISBN 9781848855632. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- Gale (Firm) (1858). The Illustrated London News. 32. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. p. 562. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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